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Accused Nazi POW camp guard, 105, being investigated in Germany

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A 105-year-old man is being investigated for possible crimes committed at a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp during World War II, German prosecutors said on Thursday.

"The 105-year-old suspect is thought to have been a guard at the prisoner-of-war camp Stalag 326 VI K" in the Senne region of western Germany, prosecutors told AFP in a statement.

The man is "accused of being an accessory to multiple murders through his activities there."

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